id:			154286
accession number:	1988.94
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.94
updated:		2022-06-17 09:00:48.829000

Seated Woman, c. 1923-1924. Chaïm Soutine (Russian, 1893-1943). Oil on canvas; framed: 88.9 x 78.7 x 8.6 cm (35 x 31 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 65 x 54 cm (25 9/16 x 21 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund 1988.94 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Seated Woman
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creation date:			c. 1923-1924
creation date earliest:		1923
creation date latest:		1924
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creditline:			Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund
copyright:			© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	Russia (worked in France), 20th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Chaïm Soutine (Russian, 1893-1943)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 88.9 x 78.7 x 8.6 cm (35 x 31 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 65 x 54 cm (25 9/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed lower right: "Soutine"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1988
	opening date:   1989-03-01T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1988</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).

	title:		Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), l'ordre du chaos
	opening date:   2012-10-02T00:00:00
	<i>Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), l'ordre du chaos</i>. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (October 2, 2012-January 21, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Musée d'Orsay (organizer).  Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (10/02/2012 - 1/21/2013):  "Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), l'ordre du chaos", no cat. no, p. 144.

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PROVENANCE

	P. A. Regnault (Amsterdam sale 1958); Mrs. John Putnam
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fun fact: 
Roald Dahl, author of <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</em>, was inspired by Soutine's work for his short story "Skin."

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wall description: 
The woman portrayed here seems to bear the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her ghostlike silhouette in tones of green and brown is bent over, her eyes look downward. The positioning of her large hands emphasize an inward-looking, melancholic state of mind. Soutine’s early experience of religious persecution had a large influence on his art. As an expatriate Russian Jew living in Paris, Soutine had to escape from the French capital and hide in order to avoid arrest by the Gestapo. He died in 1943 from a stomach ulcer.
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